First, huge thanks for releasing your tool to the wild, it was an excellent surprise while reviewing what solutions existed make Kinect-based sandboxes, you’re saving me a ton of time and headaches!

And you even give us the luxury of detailed tutorials and videos… Which by the way was a good idea, because you mentioned something in there that wasn’t in the text. In step 4, for installudevrule, Mint requests the password. The trick is Mint actually automatically gives the pwd to make because we entered it previously. In the terminal that’s not indicated at all, so I was trying to figure out why I couldn’t enter the password, tried to remember how sudo was working etc, then went to the video where you explained it.

May I suggest you edit the instructions to include the trick? It might help fellow sandboxers that have forgotten about the little things Linux does, like me 🙂

would it be possible to give me the measurements needed for this project? of the metal pole + height/width of the sandbox, the depth of the sand, height of the projector and the kinect from the ground.

I just went through the all steps and it works perfectly! I just need a sandbox though …
I installed the software on my office computer which have a Quadro 600. But I need to use a laptop instead.
The [extra] one which we have in the lab has an Intel HD Graphics 4600. Do you think that I can use it for sandbox?

Hi jblack, I apologize for the late response. Hopefully you have figured that step out. When you are at the RawKinectViewer screen, simply hold down the “z” button on your keyboard while moving the mouse to center the depth sensing projection. Once centered, let off the “z” key and scroll in or out as needed.

You may want to double check and make sure you copy and pasted the entire command line before you reached “bash Build-Ubuntu.sh”.
Part of the command is somewhat hidden as you have to scroll all the way over to the right in order to copy the entire line. So the full second command line should read “wget http://idav.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/Vrui/Build-Ubuntu.sh“

We were getting this MSG when trying to get our Kinect to work (model: 1414):

terminate called after throwing an instance of ‘std::runtime_error’
what(): Kinect::Camera::Camera: Less than 0 Kinect camera devices detected
Aborted

The light on the Kinect was blinking sporadically and would go off. The solution that worked for us was to go buy a PCI Express USB 3.0 Card that is also powered from your PSU. The problem is that your normal USB ports and the XBOX Kinect AC Adapter are not enough power. After this, VRui detects the kinect every time. We tried several more kinect’s just to make sure it wasn’t a fluke.

If you’re getting the same error msg as above, this should fix your issue. The green light on the front needs to be a constant, steady, green blinking light not a sporadic one that comes and goes. When we would type in the command to locate all connected USB devices, it would find only the Kinect motor, then motor and camera, then none and kept doing this until we installed this card. We had it running for more than 10min to make sure it didn’t drop out.

Hi I am an eight grade EAST student at Harrisburg. East is a Computer class that works with the community. I am working on a AR sandbox for our classes, and was wondering is it possible to make our own map. If so how?